Hook and eye.



W. M.- GORTHELL, HOOK AND EYE.

I APPLICATION HILED JULY 22, I907. 91 0,645.

Patented Jan. 26, 1909.

I c JM- c tg UNITED STAT FFATEN OFFICE WILLIAM M. CORTHELL, OF CHICAGO,ILLINOIS. ASSIGNOR TO F. M. WATERMAN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOOK AND EYE.

Application filed July 22, 1907.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NILLIAM iii. ConTnELL, a resident of Chicago, in thecon ity of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Hooks and Eyes; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use the same.

This invention relates to hooks and eyes ordinarily made of wire, suchas is commonly used in securing together parts of garments. Its objectsare to secure several advantages in a simple and economicalconstruction, among which are security against unhooking, avoidance ofwear of the goods, a wide spread. fastening to the goods to affordsecure hold, and facility of operation in hooking and unhooking.

The invention consists in the construction and combinations hereinafterdescribed and particularly pointed out.

In the accompanying drawing which forms a part of the specificatiomFigure 1 is a plan view of a hook and eye detached; Fig. 2 is an eogeview thereof, and the hook being shown in dotted lines engaged with theeye; Fig. 3 is plan view of a modified hook and eye; Fig. 4 is an edgeview thereof; Fig. 5 is a plan of a modified hook; and Fig. 6 is a planof a modified hook and eye.

Numeral 1 denotes an eye having thread.- receiving loops 2 offset at 3from the sides 4.

5 indicates the hook-engaging end of the eye which is bent atapproximately right angles to the sides, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, andmay be called the drop" of the eye. In use it extends below the mainpart of the eye a distance about equal to the diameter of the wire ofwhich the article is made and in use holds the goods at that point awayfrom the sides 4 of the eye thus facilitating the attachment of thehook, to be described, without wearing the goods, which latter is inmany cases a serious defect .in prior devices in which the eye is heldin contact with the goods, which must be pushed away by a wearingcontact of the point of a hook.

In some cases thread-holding bends 6 in the sides 4 of the eye, or ofthe hook, can be interposed between the end of the eye, or of the hook,and loops 2, as shown in Figs. 3 and. 6. The simpler form is howevergenerally preferable.

Speoification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. :26, 1909.

Serial No. 384,933.

7 denotes a hook having thread-receiving loops 2 and sides 4, and aneye-engaging end or head 8. Preferably the sides of the hook will beseparated, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, to insure greater distance betweenthe loops and a consequent secure attaclnnent to the goods. This howeveris not essential in all cases.

The eye-engaging end or head of the hook is formed by bending the wireas represented I.

and so as to extend beyond the hook sides 4 a distance about equal tothe diameter of the wire substantially as represented at 9. To engagethis hook with the eye when both are secured to a garment or the like,the goods and hook will be manipulated to enter one end 9 of the head 8between the sides 4 of the eye, and below said sides, and then pushingunder the opposite end. This requires a slight bending of the goodswhich must occur before the hook is released, an operation that will notoccur accidentally, the engagement of the hook and eye being thus madesecure.

A further security against accidental unhooking is provided in that thedrop end of the eye abuts against the loops 2 of the hook when the latteis moved inwardly in the general plane of the engaged hook and eye sothat it is necessary to put the hook and eye indifferent planesapproximately at right angles to each other before the head of the hookcan be pushed back of the eye, or back into the bends 6 of the eye incase the form having such bends be used. The construction howeverpermits a more direct on gagement by inserting head 8 under the sides attheir rear, which operation is facilitated by the offsets by which theloops are removed from the path of the head. This separation of theloops also insures firmer hold on the fabric. Obviously in the formshown in Figs. 3 and 6 the head can be simply assed down below the levelof the sides at t e bends 6 of the eye and so made to engage.

A serious objection to many forms of hooks and eyes is that parts ofthem are flattened or distorted by the machines the garments are passedthrough in the laundry. Neither the hook nor the eye herein set forth issubject to that defect, the several parts of the hook being situated inone plane, and the several parts of the eye so situated except for thedrop 3 which being at right angles to the main plane and of small extentwill not be injured by a wringing or other machine.

Another advantage of the improvement 5 before mentioned is that the dropslightly depresses the fabric to which the eye is attached, and thatthis and the manner of con neoting the hook and eye obviates the wearingeffect of the hook point. I

The spread of the sides of the eye and hook insuring a desirabledistance between the loops and their points of attachment obviatesexcessive strain on the threads of the fabric. The oflsets of the loopsincrease the distance while providing that the loops are removed fromany desired ath of the hook head 8 so that in cases wiere desired saidheads can be passed under the eye from the rear. Obviously this impliesa comparatively loose engagement, and is referred to as one of thecapacities of the improvement, though ordinarily the hook head will beinserted and engaged otherwise, as before indicated.

Having described the invention what I claim is,

1. The combination with a hook, of an eye having loops, sides, and aright angled bend at the hook-receiving end of the eye, said sides beingspaced apart to receive a hook, and said hook having a head extended inuse beyond the sides and bearing against the bend.

2. An eye havin loops, offsets, and sides all in a common p ane, and aright angled downwardly bent end wherebyit is adapted to be engaged by ahook head, said sides of the eye being spaced apart, as set forth.

3. An eye having loops, oifsets and sides all in a common plane, and adownwardly bent end, combined with a hook made of a single piece of wireand having sides, loops and head, said head extending outside the sidesand all parts of the hook situated in one plane.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscribing witnesses.

WILLIAM M. CORTHELL.

Witnesses:

CHAs. M. CATLIN, W. N. WooDsoN.

